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1. "Blip.tv is growing its audience by forming partnerships with traditional TV manufacturers and a new breed of company in the set-top box market that lets consumers connect to the Internet via their televisions."Author: Adam Ostrow

2. "Computers are quiet and clean and totally distracting because the Internet is there, lying in wait for a moment of weakness to pounce on your creativity and progress."Author: Arlaina Tibensky

3. "I spent hours on the internet looking at how glamorous actresses winked and how they would put their hand on their waist, and I was told to look at how they would walk in a room and how her body takes place of everything."Author: Berenice Bejo

5. "It's a grave mistake in publishing, whether you're talking about Internet or print publication, to try to play to a limited repertoire of established reader interests."Author: Denis Dutton

6. "This is the moment when I should also admit that when the Internet first arrived I kept telling people it was a fad."Author: Gail Collins

7. "A wise man (or the first comedian in history) once said, "If you wish to make God laugh, tell him your plans." This is why during praying, I occasionally slip in my business plans. If there were an internet of somekind in heaven, my story would've been forwarded to everyone even before lunch break."Author: Isman H. Suryaman

9. "I have spent many a night in an Internet chat room, but not since I've been married."Author: Jane Green

10. "The internet to me is kind of like a black hole, and I never really go on it."Author: Jennifer Lawrence

11. "They hired us over the Internet, mailed us half the cash and promised the other half after we nailed the vampire."I lowered Grief until it pointed straight at Rudy's crotch. "You two wouldn't recognize the Internet if a server fell on your heads. So give it to me straight this time, Rudy, before I lose my temper and make sure Junior grows up an only child."Author: Jennifer Rardin

12. "Library-denigrators, pay heed: suggesting that the Internet is a viable substitute for libraries is like saying porn could replace your wife."Author: Joanne Harris

13. "The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it."Author: John Perry Barlow

14. "I always feel a certain sense of reverence in libraries, even small city ones that smell like homeless internet users."Author: Ken Jennings

15. "Everybody tells me what a timesaver the Internet is, and how they can't believe they ever got along without it. And I know what they mean, but every time I use it I wind up wondering what people did with their spare time before computers came along to suck it all up."Author: Lawrence Block

16. "The Internet is truly God's gift to the Chinese people."Author: Liu Xiaobo

17. "Submitting to censorship is to enter the seductive world of 'The Giver': the world where there are no bad words and no bad deeds. But it is also the world where choice has been taken away and reality distorted. And that is the most dangerous world of all."Author: Lois Lowry

18. "In the ideal public library, we are all readers of the "middling sort." Reading whatever we will, we fulfill a public function, preserving the sacrosanct space of inner thought that is our birthright. Assaults on that birthright in the forms of legislation, surveillance, and censorship ultimately are precisely as dangerous as our acquiescence in them."Author: Matthew Battles

19. "There should be a background check every time a firearm is transferred. You shouldn't be able to go to a gun show and buy guns without a background check. There are Internet gun sales, classified ads in the newspapers - and you can buy guns without background checks."Author: Michael D. Barnes

20. "Guys should not be allowed to use the Internet all day long. So sad."Author: Natasha Leggero

21. "The Internet plays an ever more significant role in the sedulous promotion of terrorism. We know that in the U.K., groups gather to view the preaching of violent men located many thousands of miles away and that this does have a powerful effect on young minds."Author: Pauline Neville Jones

22. "Any government which fears freedom of speech and expression, should fear the internet more."Author: Robert Black

23. "There was no censorship of the press: in general, the War Measures Act could have been made even more radical."Author: Robert Bourassa

24. "TV cookery is very like internet porn - the overwhelming majority of its audience will never ever get to act out what's happening on screen."Author: Skint Foodie

25. "At its core, I don't view Facebook as a social network. I think it could become the driver's license of the Internet. And beyond that, it can become the pipes and the plumbing upon what most of the Internet is built. I think it's very well positioned."Author: Timothy Ferriss

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It was just after the war. There was nothing left in Warsaw for me. He and his brother were coming to Krakow to make a fresh start. And he loved me so. He would have done anything for me." Author: Brigid Pasulka